SH--when you actually know what you are talking about, come on back in. Like so many other "I've got mine" people, you operate from false assumptions and beliefs with no first hand knowledge or experience on which to base your opinion. You buy into the myth of the lazy, unworthy poor. Guess what? The poor are just like the rest of us, with the same mix of virtues and vices that you find in any other segment of the population.

Do you know what "disabled" means? It means not able to work.

Do you know what full time employment means? It means a person is working full-time. How many housekeepers, bodyshop repairmen, waitresses, cooks, nurses aides, landscape employees, custodians, dental assistants, Dr. Office receptionists, sales clerks, make enough money to pay the rent on the 25 year old 12x60 trailer with rotten floors,, the utilities, the car payment, the insurance, the property taxes, the food, the dental care, the $100 a month prescription, and the transmission replacement when it goes on the cheapest car they could find to get to and from work. (Guess what, low cost mass transit exists in very few places in this country.) Train 'em for better jobs? What if their IQ is below 90? What if they have medical problems that limit their ability to do manual or physically demanding work? And if they all did get trained up to make even $40,000 a year--then who provides all those services that they were providing?

YOU DO NOT GET IT!

If you are a single individual who worked and worked hard and was pretty well paid, and then became disabled when you were 30 or 35 years old, you are going to draw $800 to $1000 a month on disability.

You are not going to be able to live within your means, because that money won't cover basic needs. What should that person eliminate? Running water? Heat? Antipsychotic medications? Food? Should they give up the substandard housing that still cost $600 to $800 a month in the part of the country in which I live?

I SAY, AND I SAY IT LOUDLY that when people in this country are NOT ABLE (not ABLE--get it?)TO FEED THEMSELVES OR THEIR KIDS, WHEN THEY CAN NOT GET BASIC HEALTH CARE, WHEN THEY CANNOT KEEP THE UTILITIES ON, not because of scarcity and not because of lack of 'want to', that I don't give a rat's ass about who pays more than their 'fair share.' I will gladly pay more than my 'fair share.' And what about the kids of the parents without the want to? Let 'em starve--sins of the fathers and all that?

What is wrong with you! And with millions like you.

Janie